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Henry Cole

1808 - 1882

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Sir Henry Cole FRSA (15 July 1808 – 15 April 1882) was an English civil servant and inventor who facilitated many innovations in commerce, education and the arts in the 19th century in the United Kingdom. Cole is credited with devising the concept of sending greetings cards at Christmas time, introducing the world's first commercial Christmas card in 1843. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henry Cole is the 233rd most popular businessperson (up from 397th in 2019), the 1,698th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,646th in 2019) and the 14th most popular British Businessperson.

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Among businesspeople, Henry Cole ranks 233 out of 847. Before him are Rosalía Mera, Thomas Lipton, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, Rex Tillerson, Carl Laemmle, and Stavros Niarchos. After him are Horacio Pagani, Rinat Akhmetov, Yves Rocher, Ramón Calderón, Lawrence Roberts, and Josep Lluís Núñez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1808, Henry Cole ranks 29. Before him are Henrik Wergeland, Solomon Northup, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Princess Vilhelmine Marie of Denmark, Mindon Min, and Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. After him are Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Eugénie de Beauharnais, Urbano Rattazzi, Venancio Flores, Johann Benedict Listing, and Johann Kaspar Bluntschli. Among people deceased in 1882, Henry Cole ranks 34. Before him are Jørgen Moe, Henry Draper, Mikhail Skobelev, Henri Giffard, Joachim Raff, and Anthony Trollope. After him are János Arany, Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Berthold Auerbach, Estanislao Figueras, Alfred Escher, and Johann Benedict Listing.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Henry Cole ranks 1,698 out of 8,785. Before him are Frederick Delius (1862), John Farey Sr. (1766), Una O'Connor (1880), Renée Vivien (1877), Edward Balliol (1283), and George Young (1946). After him are Robert Faurisson (1929), Karen Gillan (1987), N. T. Wright (1948), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Harold Shipman (1946), and Herbert Kilpin (1870).

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Among BUSINESSPEOPLE In United Kingdom

Among businesspeople born in United Kingdom, Henry Cole ranks 14. Before him are J. Bruce Ismay (1862), David Armstrong-Jones, 2nd Earl of Snowdon (1961), Brian Epstein (1934), Thomas Cook (1808), John McAfee (1945), and Thomas Lipton (1848). After him are Vidal Sassoon (1928), David Icke (1952), Edward Cave (1691), George Williams (1821), Isabella Beeton (1836), and Edward Colston (1636).

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